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Of the People. Chapter 5 : The Eighteenth-Century World 1700–1775. Common Threads.

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>> What were the some of the choices that individual men and women made in the eighteenth century— for example, where to live, how to work, what to purchase, what to believe—and how did those choices affect their society?

>> How did such choices make everyday life more democratic? What were the forces that worked against such democratization?

>> How were free Americans able to become wealthier even without significant technological innovations?

>> How did the consumer revolution affect American society and culture?

>> As the colonial population became more diverse and complex, with separate regional cultures and an increasing variety of beliefs and religious practices, were there other experiences that colonial Americans had in common? Is it possible yet, on the eve of the American Revolution, to talk about a common American experience or culture?

“Whitefield embodied the great contradictions of his age without threatening the political or economic order that sustained them….Whitefield’s strategy was to criticize the individual without attacking the system.”

“Although the eighteenth-century industrial and consumer revolutions tied the peoples of the North Atlantic world together, climate, geography, immigration, patterns of economic development, and population density made for considerable variety.”

Creating an Urban Public Sphere

Scale and Scope of Urban Expansion

The Wealthy Class

Urban Dwellers

Social Life

Attitudes: Identity and Politics

The Diversity of Urban Life

How did the urban poor and black slaves react to the economic stratification of urban life?

“Although the movements might seem fundamentally opposite…both criticized established authority and valued the experience of the individual. Both contributed to the humanitarianism that emerged at the end of the century, and both were products of capitalism.”

The Ideas of the Enlightenment

How did the Enlightenment alter Europeans’ view of the world, and of knowledge in general?

What was the impact on “traditional” sources (institutions) of knowledge, such as the Bible (church)?

>> What were the some of the choices that individual men and women made in the eighteenth century—for example, about where to live, how to work, what to purchase, what to believe—and how did those choices affect their society?

>> How did such choices make everyday life more democratic? What were the forces that worked against such democratization?

>> How were free Americans able to become wealthier even without significant technological innovations?

>> How did the consumer revolution affect American society and culture?

>> As the colonial population became more diverse and complex, with separate regional cultures and an increasing variety of beliefs and religious practices, were there other experiences that colonial Americans had in common? Is it possible yet, on the eve of the American Revolution, to talk about a common American experience or culture?